After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World

A/N: Happy Sunday~! We’re getting an extra chapter later! Thank you sooo much for your help and support!

Additional hugs to the bulk golden ticket gifters! *SOBS*

P.S. I also really, really, want to shift back to our FL asap. I was planning on doing this during the adventure arc, but I will try to place more weight on her side earlier than that.

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Speaking of a certain Pharmacist, Althea had also been very busy with practicing her various skills, and not just limited to her pharmacy skills.

Her wood ability had shown the most progress among her skills. It wasn’t only her, either.

During the past few months, a few wood elementalists have been awakened. This included Gru and a few of his farmers.

Unlike other places, most of the wood elementalists in Alterra actually chose to prioritize the support aspect of the element.

Unlike other places, they could afford to.

This was just right. Wood Elementalists were almost as rare as the Metal or Ice elementalists, and their skills and abilities were far more useful for support than direct combat.

That said, all the wood support—that was, those who could manipulate the growth and development of plants like Thorance—were hired by her.

Except for Gru, everyone else who accepted her offers was required to sign working bonds with her for at least 3 years. In exchange, she taught them everything she knew.

She also instructed them the skill Thorance taught her—Woodland Camouflage.

She even made an exam that forced them to learn the skills, and she chose an orchard with the oddest arrangement of branches, just because.

All these grown men and women posed oddly in front of the tree, with varying percentages of success. The exam took more than an hour, and they looked sillier than she did when she was learning the skill.

It was oddly satisfying, she was not gonna lie.

Other than those, she also taught them how to use the Eye—though not everyone actually managed to awaken it yet. She also taught them how to manipulate or hasten the plants’ growth—something that felt miraculous to them.

Anyway, the more they learned, the more they looked at her as if she was a goddess they owed their life to.

Maybe they did.

On the other hand, her array skills were understandably stagnant, at least in her standard. Oslo had to reassure her with full sincerity that she was already doing very, very, very well—so well that he couldn’t believe it, in fact.

Apparently, she knew more about arrays now compared to the majority of the population.

The array skills simply had major limitations since there were no inheritances and very, very, few experts to pass on the knowledge.

And even if there were masters spread all over the world, they were unlikely to meet up, and even unlikelier to share what they knew. It simply was counter-intuitive for the people here.

Althea was not one to be discouraged, though. She had a portion of her math team work on arrays as a side project. If they saw some progress, she might even assign a dedicated team.

In the Math Department, there was a copy of her array notebook—the one where she drew and took note of all her observations and insights.

Similarly, the team would study it, analyze the pattern development, and so on.

Hopefully, within the next few years, someone or a few among them would develop into tool makers at least. The best case would be to awaken as array masters, but that’d take at least a decade.

Anyway, it could be said that she had been very very busy with the specialized skills and fields. This was why a lot of people had passed her in terms of level, but she didn’t mind.

She might be the Lord of the territory, but it was the strength of tens of thousands that comprised Alterra’s strengths.

In her mind, what her citizens accomplished was also indirectly hers. Her part in all this was to explore avenues most people could not. She’d leave much of the leveling up to them—at least for now.

Of course, she also trained a lot but because she didn’t go to a town like the others back when they were a village, it was inevitable for her level to stagnate a bit.

Besides, with her husband gone for more than a month, how could she bear to leave both of their children alone in Alterra?

Besides, she didn’t think she was being left in the dust. Her progress was still decent, considering everything. At this, she couldn’t help but peek at her status bar.

[STATS:

Name: Althea Witt

Age: 26

Level: 17 (11920/80000)

Life: 5490/5500

Spirit: 5440/5500 +55

Physical/ATK: 737 +74

Agility: 722 +72

Defense: 705 +134

Mana: 5200/5400

Physical Potential: A

Mental potential: SS+

Skills:

Active: Elementary Appraisal (D), Perfect Aim (D), Quick Shot (D), Growth Skill Mixture Calculator (Lv1), Triple Shot (D), Curved Shot (C ), Earth Mapping (D), Earth Spring (D), Mist Cloud (E), Woodland Camouflage (D), Plant Sense (D), Water Sense (D)

Passive: Mana Reduction (C),

Elemental Affinity: Wood, Water, Earth

Occupation: Class D Pharmacist, Class D Archer, Class E Toolmaker

Titles: Lord of Altera, Elder of Plant and Pharmaceutical Studies

Overall rank: S

Current Status: Healthy ]

[EQUIPMENT:

Head: None

Ears: None

Body: Casual Blouse +5 DEF,

Rainbow Silk Undergarments (A). +80 Defense (or +10% Defense) , +10 Agility (or +5% Agi), +50 Spirit (or +1% Spirit)

Medina Robe (C): +40 Defense

Arms: None

Legs: Casual Denim +10 DEF

Hands: Bellagio Bow (B): +40 ATK (or +10% ATK, +1% Piercing effect)

Feet: Eagle Boots (B): +30 Agility (or +5% AGI) +10% weight reduction

Other: Protection Token ]

Interestingly, her Class A and B equipment shifted to a percentage effect rather than a fixed amount. This was one of the special things about equipment above Class C—they, too, grow with its user.

It seemed like the moment the equivalent percentage exceeded the fixed value, it’d trigger.

According to the Golds, it had something to do with the continuous flow of aether between the user and the weapon—which should only grow more sophisticated as the user grew. There also seemed to be some sort of synchronization effect.

That said, the creation of such weapons and equipment was quite mysterious and based on very specific inheritances that only a select few would ever receive. Even if they did, it would take decades to understand the concept.

It was why there had been no known weapons or armorsmiths who had climbed to Class B below 100 years old.

To summarize, if the gap between Class D and Class C was a gorge, then the gap between Class C and Class B were countries. This was the same with all professions, in fact.

Rather, for Pharmacists, Toolmakers, and Architects—the gap between Class C and Class B were continents.

Speaking of that, even when she had done thousands of bottles using her pharmacy skills, it seemed like she was still some distance from upgrading to a Class C Pharmacist.

Sigh.

This was understandable as this process normally took at least a few decades (if ever), but Althea always wanted to learn and know more.

After all, the territory was growing so fast—too fast.

As its Lord and as its main pharmacist—at least in terms of her main tasks and contributions—she didn’t want to be left behind.